On the morning of Thursday 21st August 2022, MI Abaga and Trace Naija dropped a trailer video in anticipation of his forthcoming fifth studio album, ‘The Guy’ to cap off his impressive 15-year run in the rap game. MI has said in the past that this album will be a classic, the best he has ever made.
The video exposed some information about the upcoming album,Chopstix has production credits on the album that will be dropped under Chocolate City and his new imprint Incredible Music.
The album will be dropping on the 19th of August 2022, with features from Olamide, Nas, BNXN,Lord Vino, Duncan Mighty,Wande Coal etc.
on the morning of Friday, July 22ns, 2022, MI released the second single from the album, following the lead single, the Chillz assisted ‘Daddy.’ The single is a trap tune titled ‘The Guy.’ The pseudonym Abaga announced that he will be going by after the album drops, retiring the name ‘M.I.’
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Queen Bey has been prepping for her first album since 2017’s ‘Lemonade.’ Apple Music published the full list of credits on the album on Thursday, which includes Nigerian R&B and Alte artist Tems. The other names on the list include her husband Jay Z and other hip-hop juggernauts.
Names like Drake, Jay-Z, Pharrell, The Dream, and many more are featured in the credits of Knowles’ forthcoming seventh full-length solo album ‘Renaissance.’
The list has taken the internet by storm as Drake is on the song, Heated, forthcoming seventh full-length solo album ‘Renaissance.’
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As we await the deluxe version of Blxckie’s ‘4LUV EP,’ the Durban, KZN rapper has decided to tease fans with the much anticipated A-Reece collab which serves as the lead single to the forthcoming project.
The song features melodic crooning from Blxckie on a trap beat and an explicit short rap verse from Reece.
Mzansi social media has been going crazy since the song dropped in the wee hours of Friday, 22 July, 2022.
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A-Reece’s go-to song for live performances, the song that has put audiences in music festivals all over Africa in a frenzy, announced the emergence of the wrecking crew and solidified Reece’s new formula, has hit another milestone. The Ayanda Mayo Sedibe-directed black and white video has hit an impressive 5 million views on Youtube.
This proves that fans are still engaging the video that dropped on September 16 2017.
The video was shot in A-Reece’s mansion in the Honeydew neighbourhood located in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg, with cameos from Wrecking Crew members Mashbeatz, Ecco and Flvme.
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Blxckie has celebrated enough records in 2022 to last two careers, some months ago he celebrated having ten certification plaques, between a continental tour, an Earthgang feature, and his forthcoming track with A-Reece, the Durban rapper is celebrating the lead single off his last project ‘Umoya’ amassing a million streams on Apple Music just five months sinc the release of the ‘4LUV EP.’
The Drill rap scene in Africa is growing exponentially and Mzansi is not taking a back seat as her Drill artists aim to reach for what their counterparts in Ghana and Nigeria are doing. South African Drill rapper Roiii is at the forefront of that revolution as he has announced a new song on the way titled Good City Bad Roads.
The track will drop under K.O’s Skhanda World imprint, Roiii was one of the artists who was featured on the label’s compilation album ‘Welcome To The Planet.’
Roiii contributed his hit single ‘La Vida Loca’ to the album which featured label boss K.O, Just Bheki, Loki etc.
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SA rap veteran rapper, record producer, and cotton fest founder Rikhado Makhado who was known all over Africa as Riky Rick committed suicide on February 23, 2022. Before his death, Riky Rick had helped so many Mzansi artists break out into the mainstream via features, co0signs ,or a slot to perform on his Cotton Festival stage. Riky also blessed audiences with several hits before his passing, to celebrate his first posthumous birthday we shall be ranking 5 of his best hit songs.
5. Stay Shining
The title track of Riky’s 2018 EP which saw a more musical side of Riky, the song and the whole project saw Riky exploring his more melodic side.
2018 was a year of artistic growth and evolution for Riky and this song is he epitome of that evolution.
This song houses aone of the most classic beat switches in A hip hop history and a classic A-Reece verse that always grace the Cotton Fest stage every year, the verse that announced A-Reece’s return to music after his nasty legal feud with Ambitiouz Entertainment.
No rap fan in Mzansi can forget thesse bars ‘f***k whats out now its only hot now cos I aint dropped yet,’ ‘black and white chanel vans from across the ocean looking like a killer whale.’
Riky Rick rapping ‘I been hutling for mulla mulla, when I get rich ama pick you up,’ shall forever be a bop.
3. Amantombazane Remix
Posse cuts don’t get any better than this, DJ Dimplez assembled Maggz, Kwesta, Okmalumkoolkat, KiD X, Nadia Nakai, Ginger Trill and Riky Rick for this super energetic cyphr style banger with the infectious hook and classic verses from Kwesta, Malumkoolkat and Riky himself, and also the verse that introduced most South Africans to Nadia Nakai.
Only thing missing from this cut is a Cassper Nyovest verse.
2. Boss Zonke
The song that started it all , Boss Zonke is definitely the most famous and iconic Riky Rick song ever.
In 2014 and 2015 a great paradigm shift swept through SA hip hop with the emergence of the AKA and Cassper dynasty, solo K.O and just on their trails was Riky Rick and his BoyznBucks.
Boss Zonke his second single paved the way, with that female choral ratchet zulu girl chant by Sanelelasta Mkhize that goes ”Boss zonke, boss nLonke Akanandaba, unehaba, KwaMashu naseMlazi, Umswenko bayamazi,” and Riky going ”everything I do they wanna do,” the Cotton club wave spread across the country and propelled Riky Rick to hip hop superstardom.
1. Sondela
This love letter to Riky’s baby mother at a time his first child was still a toddler, with a video starring Pearl Thusi from Riky’s debut album is Makhado’s most sincere and vulnerable effort. Riky sacrificed complex penmanship for accessible lines to accompany Zano’s soulful hook. If there’s a better Riky Rick song than ‘Boss Zonke’ then it can only be ‘Sondela’
And there you have it, what is your top 5 Riky Rick song? Happy havenly birthday Makhado, we don’t, die we multiply.
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Lagos based rapper and front runner of his imprint label Cash Lap Empire is out with the visuals for the leading single “Manifesting” off his latest project Manifestation.
“Manifestation is my state of mind, my dreams, my goals, my objectives, my career”- Says the rapper
The video which was shot in streets of Lagos, Nigeria shows the rapper expressing his dreams and Manifesting his dreams in a playful video.
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CLE Cashout who just recently released a single with Hiphop Africa is having a good year ans is rumored to have another video and single in the coming weeks.
South African rapper and AKA’s new bae Nadia Nakai is set to et her relationship with new beau AKA, take a backseat for her music career to drive for a while, as she is set to release new music
After parting ways with Cassper Nyovest’s record label Family Tree, she’s been working on her own record label Bragga Records since last year. In a chat with DRUM, the award-winning rapper, real name Nadia Nakai Kandava, says it was time for her to grow on her own.
The rapper began working on her own record label called Bragga Records, and earlier this year she got a deal with the International label Warner Music Group.
The femcee is ready to drop a new single under her new home and it’s titled ‘Not the Same’ featuring Durban rapper Lucasraps, which will drop on Friday, July 22nd, 2022.
Below is a snippet of the fire joint that has been setting Mzansi internet on fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsJJ3fkl94o
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About seven years later, the song that launched Nasty C’s very illustrious career, featuring a classic verse from him that set Mzansi on fire, and a continental mega star feature in Davido and a debate between who had the better verse between Cassper and Nasty, has now amassed five million views on Youtube.
